Happy Mondays > Monday's Child Is Still Mad For It (interview with Tony Wilson and Shaun Ryder, The Times, 21 August 2004 < History

The Times on Saturday 21 August 2004 had a great interview with Tony Wilson and Shaun Ryder together with new and old pics by Kevin Cummins. Titled 'Monday's child still mad for it' it reviews the past and neatly tied in with Get Loaded In The Park which was the following day.

Shaun on the Happy Mondays back catalogue: "It has been years since I listened to some of our old songs. I was listening to Mad Cyril, and I had to ask Tony what it was! I could tell it was us, but I'd forgotten it. It were good, too. I don't know why I thought it was shit when I wrote it."

There's also a short guided tour of Kevin Cummins's finest Mondays photos [in the printed 'Eye' version of the article only] including a great Cummins anecdote: "Tony introduced me to Shaun by saying: 'Kevin's photographed the Sex Pistols and Ian Curtis'. Shaun goes: 'So what? They're fookin' dead!' I asked what they wanted, and they said: 'We want our picture taken with Rambo.'"